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Patrick wants to know if Leo has ever used the Capture One software that comes with his Sony Camera, and is it worth upgrading to the full version if so? Leo says that a lot of pros use the pro version of Capture One. It supports tethering, but so does Adobe Lightroom. Another benefit of Adobe Lightroom is Adobe Camera Raw, which renders Raw really well. Other options include DXO Photo, Skylum Luminar. Luminar also has a great HDR editor developed by Trey Ratcliffe. But if you want the most popular alternative to Lightroom, Capture One would be it.

Josh has a Samsung Galaxy S6 that he really likes because he can shoot raw with it. But it was a proprietary version of raw, and Lightroom can't read it. What can he do? Leo says it's up to Adobe to write a converter for it. Josh says that shooting in Camera FV5 shoots raw in a version that can be read, and it can also convert the S6 raw files to DNG. The thing about raw is that it has to be processed in post in order to get the best looking image from it.

Todd has a Canon 5D Mk. III and he has been shooting JPG. He's starting to shoot RAW now and needs a program to edit them. Leo says the 5D Mk. III allows him to shoot RAW + JPG. That's pretty good because it gives him the option of either. RAW gives him a lot of latitude for color correction and post processing and Adobe Lightroom works great for converting it. It also has a simple workflow.

Chris heard the call from Caleb who wanted to know about shooting photography with Raw and he decided it was a great topic for today's photo segment. Chris says Raw is a topic that he always gets questions about. On the sensor, there are three color channels, red-green-blue. The sensor collects the light, converts them into an electrical charge and then processes it into pixels with a charge. The charge is what determines the color of the pixel. So you essentially end up with three pictures of the same image in red, green and blue. And then it's mixed up and saved into a Raw file.

Caleb loves photography and he's serious about it as a hobby. But he wants to know about shooting in raw. What is that? Leo says that's where the camera doesn't compress any of the data or process it. It just writes the raw image and it usually covers the entire area of the sensor. But in order to look at it, you have to process it later with a program that can understand the data and render it into an image. But Caleb can also choose to save as JPEG to save on space. But it's also considerably compressed. JPEG is only good if you don't want to post process it and color correct it.

George has a camera that shoots in RAW, and wants to know what software for Mac will handle this best. Leo says that RAW is the uncompressed, raw data coming from the sensor, so it's huge, unwieldy, and unprocessed. The Mac already has a program that can handle those RAW files, though. iPhoto should handle it, but Apple Aperture is another good option that will give him additional capabilities. Leo also likes Adobe Lightroom.